Three drastically different movies are in theaters this weekend: a sequel to the video-game-to-horror-movie adaptation Five Nights at Freddy's ; a parody of gilded age sagas like Downton Abbey ; and an intimate Stephen Sondheim musical, captured on camera during its Broadway run.
They join box office hit Zootopia 2 , a Knives Out sequel, Wicked: For Good and more in theaters. (Here's what came out last week , and the week before .)
Five Nights at Freddy's 2
In theaters
The 2023 movie Five Nights At Freddy's became a gigantic horror hit. In that film, Gen Z nostalgia — for a hit video game — met Gen X nostalgia for children's restaurants like Showbiz Pizza and Chuck E. Cheese. In the games it's based on, and in the first movie, our protagonist, Mike Schmidt (Josh Hutcher

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